Artifact
Skip · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 47% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated HD Graphics 520 w/128 MB or better, 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Artifact now features two games: Artifact Classic, the original Dota 2 trading card game, and Artifact Foundry, a special edition with streamlined gameplay, new cards, new single-player content, and an improved new player experience.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Ascension: Deckbuilding Game ($9.99, scores 69) and Infinity Wars: Animated Trading Card Game (free, scores 39) both outscore it.
Critics scored it 76, but players land 29 points lower at 47 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 1,776 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
SteamSpy counted about 33 players in it at once, as of Jul 5.
Players
About 33 players at once, as of Jul 5.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Artifact scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/583950/artifactReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1.
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